Constituency
208. Dinapur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-DINAPUR
SOC 54.0%won by 17.0%INC 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to SOC (SOC), which now leads by 17.0%.
- SOC vote shareSOC went from 0.0% to 54.0% of the vote here (+54.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.0% of the vote between them, up from 57.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
33,740
Margin
5,741
17.02%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SOC- 1RAM SEWAK SINGHSOC · SOC18,22854.0%
- 2SITA RAM KESRIIndian National Congress · INC12,48737.0%
- 3NANDA CHARAN ROYSwatantra Party · SWA1,7615.2%
- 4AJAB NARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND1,2643.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SOCflipped
- SOC–INC swing
- +46.2%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 54.0%
- INC share
- 29.2% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- — → —